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Re: ISO image



On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote:
> > A real beginners question.   What is an ISO image?   
> 
> An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem.  It is,
> essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM.  You can use this kind of
> file to burn a CD, it's been around longer, is the international
> standard for such images, and is far easier than screwing around with
> bin/cue stuff (when I run into this, I just use bchunk to fix people's
> broken, propriety bin/cue images into something universally usable).

What are bin and cue images?  In this context, I though that ".bin"
was just another way of naming files, since ".iso" is only a convention,
not a mandate.

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